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Each episode focuses on a pilot working in remote areas and so being the red thread to discover some aspects of life in these isolated areas. | Each episode focuses on a pilot working in remote areas and so being the red thread to discover some aspects of life in these isolated areas. | ||
| + | = Other Seasons = | ||
| + | List of episodes on the Discussion tab. | ||
= Season Three (2020) = | = Season Three (2020) = | ||
| − | Polynésie, le pilote des atolls (Polynesia, the pilot of the atolls) | + | Episode <i>Polynésie, le pilote des atolls</i> (Polynesia, the pilot of the atolls) |
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== [[:Category: ATR 42|ATR 42]] == | == [[:Category: ATR 42|ATR 42]] == | ||
The former livery of [[:Category: Air Tahiti|Air Tahiti]] seen for several years in parallel with the one with red tails. | The former livery of [[:Category: Air Tahiti|Air Tahiti]] seen for several years in parallel with the one with red tails. | ||
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[[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_2022_F-OIOK.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_2022_F-OIOK.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| − | (to | + | == [[:Category: ATR 72|ATR 72-600 (72-212A)]] == |
| − | [[Image:|thumb|500px|none|]] | + | Reg. F-ORVS delivered on 19 November 2014 to [[:Category: Air Tahiti|Air Tahiti]] and christened <i>Heireva</i>, c/n 1192 (first flight on 10th of November). <br>On the 4th of April 2022, slighty damaged by a hard landing at Hiva Oa Atuana airport, Archipel Des Marquises, French Polynesia. |
| − | [[Image:|thumb|500px|none|]] | + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_0250_F-ORVS.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] |
| + | Reg. F-ORVR delivered on 18 October 2017 to [[:Category: Air Tahiti|Air Tahiti]] and christened <i>Tapuata</i>, c/n 1485 (maiden flight on 27/09/2017). | ||
| + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_0254_F-ORVR.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
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| + | == [[:Category: Boeing 787|Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner]] == | ||
| + | (background left) The blue tail with a tiaré flower (Tahitian gardenia) is one of the four Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, the new workforce of [[:Category: Air Tahiti Nui|Air Tahiti Nui]]. | ||
| + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_0312_787.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
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| + | == [[:Category: ATR 72|ATR 72-600 (72-212A)]] == | ||
| + | Reg. F-ORVN second ATR 72-600 (marketing name for ATR 72-212A variant) delivered to [[:Category: Air Tahiti|Air Tahiti]]. Aircraft name is <i>Rereara'i</i> (Tahitian meaning in French : Envol céleste/Parcours céleste ; in English : Celestial flight/Celestial journey) since November 2015 when delivered to the airline (maiden flight :28/05/2015; c/n 1255). | ||
| + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_0348_F-ORVN.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| + | Reg. F-ORVO delivered on 03 December 2015 to [[:Category: Air Tahiti|Air Tahiti]], three weeks after her first flight. Christened <i>Rereatau</i> (Envol durable/Parcours du temps or Sustainable Flight/Time Course), c/n 1289. | ||
| + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_0415_F-ORVO.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| + | Reg. F-ORVV named <i>Ra'ireva</i> (c/n 1376). At [[:Category: Air Tahiti|Air Tahiti]] since mid-december 2016 (one month after her roll-out). | ||
| + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_0909_F-ORVV.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
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| + | == [[:Category: Fokker F27 Friendship|Fairchild F-27]] == | ||
| + | Reg. F-OCYA Fairchild F-27 c/n 98 former N756L for Hughes Airwest. Was used by Air Polynésie between 1970 and 1974. Later used by her final owner Air Cortez International as N2708B and dismantled in 1990 on Ontario - International airport (ONT / KONT) where she was still visible derelic in 2015. | ||
| + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_1606_F-OCYA.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_1626.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| − | [[ | + | == [[:Category: Beechcraft Twin Bonanza| Beechcraft D50 Twin Bonanza]] == |
| − | [[Image:|thumb|500px|none|]] | + | Reg. F-ODBU Beechcraft D50 Twin Bonanza private aircraft of Jacques Brel, christened <i>Jojo</i> in memory of Gérard Pasquier died in 1974 (Gérard was the best friend of Jacques, working as his driver before becoming his secretary). |
| − | [[Image:|thumb|500px|none|]] | + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_2312_JOJO.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] |
| − | [[Image:|thumb|500px|none|]] | + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_2312_F-ODBU.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] |
| − | [[Image:|thumb|500px|none|]] | + | With Jacques Brel at the controls (two years before he died from a cancer). |
| + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_2452_F-ODBU.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| + | The Twin Bonanza in her original colors after several years of outdoor exhibition. | ||
| + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_2520_F-ODBU.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| − | [[Image:|thumb|500px|none|]] | + | == [[:Category: De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter|De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter]] == |
| − | [[Image:|thumb|500px|none|]] | + | One of the last flight done by [[:Category: Air Tahiti|Air Tahiti]] with such aircraft (the two airframes were sold in 2021). |
| − | [[Image:|thumb|500px|none|]] | + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_2715.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] |
| − | [[Image:|thumb|500px|none|]] | + | DHC-6 cockpit seen forward .. |
| − | [[Image:|thumb|500px|none|]] | + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_2930.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Ua Pou runway in sight ...]] |
| + | ... and backwards | ||
| + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_2730.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| + | Reg. F-OIQF De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter c/n 815 built in 1984. Was N45KH until 2003 and ET-AIM (1985-?). | ||
| + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_2802_F-OIQF.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| + | Landing a Ua Pou (IATA: UAP, ICAO: NTMP), 9° 24′ 00″ S, 140° 04′ 00″ W in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. | ||
| + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_2950_UaPou.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| + | The airport elevation is 16 feet at the threshold and 114 feet once on the tarmac. | ||
| + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_3025_UaPou.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| + | Releasing brakes : runway is only 830 m (2 723 ft) with continuous gust winds ! | ||
| + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_3035_F-OIQF_815.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Air Tahiti was the operator; the real owner was the Government of Polynesia -as show by the coat of arms on the tail-.]] | ||
| − | [[ | + | == [[:Category: ATR 72|ATR 72-600 (72-212A)]] == |
| − | + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_3200.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | |
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| − | [[Image:|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| − | + | At [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Locations|Aéroport international de Tahiti-Faa'a (PPT/NTAA)]].<br> | |
| − | + | We guess a [[:Category: Boeing 777|Boeing 777-200]] of [[:Category: Air France|Air France]] hiden by the terminal. | |
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| − | At [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Locations|Aéroport international de Tahiti-Faa'a (PPT/NTAA)]]. | ||
[[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_4720_FaaA.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_4720_FaaA.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| − | [[Image:|thumb|500px|none|]] | + | == [[:Category: Cessna 172 Skyhawk|Cessna 172 Skyhawk]] == |
| − | [[Image:|thumb|500px|none|]] | + | Reg. N1QS Cessna 172 Skyhawk. |
| − | [[ | + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_4810_N1QS.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] |
| − | [[ | + | |
| − | [[Image:|thumb|500px|none|]] | + | == Tecnam P2008 JC == |
| + | (from the Cessna 172 cockpit) <br> | ||
| + | Reg. F-ORVY Tecnam P2008 JC built in 2014. The aircraft disappears from the radar screen on 13 March 2021 after several warning by the air traffic controler. Pilot and aircraft are lost with no further trace despite Search and Rescue acttions started only a handle of minutes after the last call without reply by the pilot. | ||
| + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_4815_F-ORVY.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | == Various Aircraft == | ||
| + | Reg. N1QS Cessna 172 Skyhawk is taxiing with hangar (from left to right) :<br> | ||
| + | unidentified and [[:Category: Piper PA-28|Piper PA-28 Cherokee]] inside the hangar; [[:Category: Eurocopter EC135|Eurocopter EC135T2]] of Tahiti Nui Helicopters (one of two, both built in 2002 and delivered to TNH in 2020); [[:Category: Eurocopter AS350 Ecureuil/AStar|Aérospatiale AS 350 Ecureuil]].<br> | ||
| + | (bottom right) [[:Category: Boeing 787|Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner]] of [[:Category: Air Tahiti Nui|Air Tahiti Nui]]. | ||
| + | [[Image:AvionsBoutMonde-S3_4850.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]] | ||
{{footnote}} | {{footnote}} | ||
= See also = | = See also = | ||
| − | [https://www.gad-distribution.com/fr/series-documentaires/voyage-decouvertes-1/les-avions-du-bout-du-monde Les avions du bout du monde on Grand Angle Productions website | + | [https://www.gad-distribution.com/fr/series-documentaires/voyage-decouvertes-1/les-avions-du-bout-du-monde Les avions du bout du monde on Grand Angle Productions website] |
[[Category: ATR 42]] | [[Category: ATR 42]] | ||
| + | [[Category: ATR 72]] | ||
[[Category: Beechcraft Super King Air]] | [[Category: Beechcraft Super King Air]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Beechcraft Twin Bonanza]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Boeing 787]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Cessna 172 Skyhawk]] | ||
| + | [[Category: De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Fokker F27 Friendship]] | ||
[[Category: Air Tahiti]] | [[Category: Air Tahiti]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Air Tahiti Nui]] | ||
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TV Series (2017-2022 (ongoing))
English title : On the Wing
Starring:
The Pilots (Themselves)
Each episode focuses on a pilot working in remote areas and so being the red thread to discover some aspects of life in these isolated areas.
Other Seasons
List of episodes on the Discussion tab.
Season Three (2020)
Episode Polynésie, le pilote des atolls (Polynesia, the pilot of the atolls)
ATR 42
The former livery of Air Tahiti seen for several years in parallel with the one with red tails.
Raytheon B200C Super King Air
Beechcraft B200 Super King Air of Air Archipels a local airline dedicated mainly for MEDEVAC flights and operating inter-island flights in Tuamotu on behalf of Air Tahiti.
Reg. F-OIQK undoubtedly one of the three Raytheon (Beechcraft) B200C Super King Air of Air Archipels. Built in 2004 with c/n BL-149.
ATR 72-600 (72-212A)
Reg. F-ORVS delivered on 19 November 2014 to Air Tahiti and christened Heireva, c/n 1192 (first flight on 10th of November).
On the 4th of April 2022, slighty damaged by a hard landing at Hiva Oa Atuana airport, Archipel Des Marquises, French Polynesia.
Reg. F-ORVR delivered on 18 October 2017 to Air Tahiti and christened Tapuata, c/n 1485 (maiden flight on 27/09/2017).
Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
(background left) The blue tail with a tiaré flower (Tahitian gardenia) is one of the four Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, the new workforce of Air Tahiti Nui.
ATR 72-600 (72-212A)
Reg. F-ORVN second ATR 72-600 (marketing name for ATR 72-212A variant) delivered to Air Tahiti. Aircraft name is Rereara'i (Tahitian meaning in French : Envol céleste/Parcours céleste ; in English : Celestial flight/Celestial journey) since November 2015 when delivered to the airline (maiden flight :28/05/2015; c/n 1255).
Reg. F-ORVO delivered on 03 December 2015 to Air Tahiti, three weeks after her first flight. Christened Rereatau (Envol durable/Parcours du temps or Sustainable Flight/Time Course), c/n 1289.
Reg. F-ORVV named Ra'ireva (c/n 1376). At Air Tahiti since mid-december 2016 (one month after her roll-out).
Fairchild F-27
Reg. F-OCYA Fairchild F-27 c/n 98 former N756L for Hughes Airwest. Was used by Air Polynésie between 1970 and 1974. Later used by her final owner Air Cortez International as N2708B and dismantled in 1990 on Ontario - International airport (ONT / KONT) where she was still visible derelic in 2015.
Beechcraft D50 Twin Bonanza
Reg. F-ODBU Beechcraft D50 Twin Bonanza private aircraft of Jacques Brel, christened Jojo in memory of Gérard Pasquier died in 1974 (Gérard was the best friend of Jacques, working as his driver before becoming his secretary).
With Jacques Brel at the controls (two years before he died from a cancer).
The Twin Bonanza in her original colors after several years of outdoor exhibition.
De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
One of the last flight done by Air Tahiti with such aircraft (the two airframes were sold in 2021).
DHC-6 cockpit seen forward ..
... and backwards
Reg. F-OIQF De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter c/n 815 built in 1984. Was N45KH until 2003 and ET-AIM (1985-?).
Landing a Ua Pou (IATA: UAP, ICAO: NTMP), 9° 24′ 00″ S, 140° 04′ 00″ W in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.
The airport elevation is 16 feet at the threshold and 114 feet once on the tarmac.
Releasing brakes : runway is only 830 m (2 723 ft) with continuous gust winds !
ATR 72-600 (72-212A)
At Aéroport international de Tahiti-Faa'a (PPT/NTAA).
We guess a Boeing 777-200 of Air France hiden by the terminal.
Cessna 172 Skyhawk
Reg. N1QS Cessna 172 Skyhawk.
Tecnam P2008 JC
(from the Cessna 172 cockpit)
Reg. F-ORVY Tecnam P2008 JC built in 2014. The aircraft disappears from the radar screen on 13 March 2021 after several warning by the air traffic controler. Pilot and aircraft are lost with no further trace despite Search and Rescue acttions started only a handle of minutes after the last call without reply by the pilot.
Various Aircraft
Reg. N1QS Cessna 172 Skyhawk is taxiing with hangar (from left to right) :
unidentified and Piper PA-28 Cherokee inside the hangar; Eurocopter EC135T2 of Tahiti Nui Helicopters (one of two, both built in 2002 and delivered to TNH in 2020); Aérospatiale AS 350 Ecureuil.
(bottom right) Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner of Air Tahiti Nui.
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See also
Les avions du bout du monde on Grand Angle Productions website